Tarantula rims, Magnesium?

[pbureau@attbi.com (pbureau@attbi.com)]

hate to disapoint you in your "manufacturers are not dum 
enough to do this"

please follow the linsk below for multi[ple example of 
magnesium wheels sold by manufacturers.
cars...
http://www.jsm-autosport.cz/autosport/paramt.htm
bikes..
http://www.ram.mc/RC51/goodies/rc51goodies_fichiers/wheel
sram.jpg

this was a quickie search with yahoo.
they make magnesiumj (mostly magnesioum not ONLY 
magnesium based rims of course, like aluminium wheels, 
magnesium wheels are an alloy of there of the chemical 
component which is in greater amount.

yes vw had 13" tanrantula magnesium wheels.

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ATS - Patrick Bureau
1985 8v Euro GTX 3A/JH Project
1988 16v Euro GT Project
> Good god, you all cant be f-ing serious. There has never been a factory
> production rim made out of magnesium. A friend of mine had to hire a guy
> to come into his garage 3 times a week to keep all the magnesium rims on
> the race cars from oxidizing and falling apart. He spends 1 hour per
> car, and there are 12 cars in his collection, the guy makes 13 bucks an
> hour. Magnesium sucks to polish. And no, you cant just clear coat a set
> of Ford GT40 rims. Do you honestly think any car maker out there would
> make production wheels out of this stuff?
> 
> Jesus, the list hits a all new low. 
> 
> Shannon 
> www.scirocco16v.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allyn [mailto:amalventano1@comcast.net] 
> Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 8:23 AM
> To: Larry; jester@westfailure.net; scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: Re: Tarantula rims, Magnesium?
> 
> 
> bah, just hit the whole wheel with the torch :) :) :)
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Larry" <rocco16v@netzero.com>
> To: <jester@westfailure.net>; <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 11:12 PM
> Subject: Re: Tarantula rims, Magnesium?
> 
> 
> > Steve-
> >   With a chisel, cut off a tiny piece of the wheel.
> >  Apply acetylene torch to said tiny piece.  
> > If it melts, it's aluminum.
> > If it burns quite spectacularly, it's magnesium.
> > 
> > Larry
> > 
> > how do you tell the difference between the magnesium and aluminium
> > > ones (assuming that there are both out there.)
> > > 
> > > take care,
> > > 
> > > Steve
> >  
> > 
> > 
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